Aerotek is hiring for a Unit Leader!

Description:

• Responsible for ensuring a culture that places high value on employee safety and food safety.  This also includes compliance to OSHA and FDA regulations.

• Independently leads teams and executes projects to eliminate root causes of manufacturing failures.

• Coaches, directs, facilitates, trains, and develops supervisors to work efficiently while supporting the manufacturing mission.

• Effectively work as part of or lead cross-functional teams to deliver against business objectives.

• Oversees the annual budget preparation, directs the implementation, and maintains strong budgetary control of direct, indirect, and unit costs.

• Ability to make department assessments, identify problems, develop solutions, as well as articulate a plan to Plant Manager, peers, and direct reports that yields performance improvements.

• Ensures effective employee relations, measured at least in part through the annual employee engagement survey results specific to the assigned Business Unit. 

• This should be accomplished through significant floor time and consistent application of work rules.

• Coordinates, organizes, and delivers communication activities, concerning objectives, results and plans within and between the department and all other plant functions.

• Responsible for management, development and/or assessment of training plans that ensure all members of the department are aligned with company, plant, and department objectives.

• Primary owner of the Continuous Improvement process within the Business Unit in support of goals and objectives of The Hershey Company. 

• Responsible for determining appropriate delegation of assignments, ensuring follow up and taking ownership of the delegated assignments.

Skills:

Production, Continuous improvement, Supervision, Process improvement, Microsoft office, Operation, food manufacturing, quality control, solutioning, sap, powerpoint & excel, gmp, osha

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline preferred

• Enthusiastic, positive attitude

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Team building skills

• Ability to inspire and provide excellent leadership to broad and diverse workforce teams, including supervisors and large hourly teams

• Ability to overcome resistance to change, adapt to change, and lead change

• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback

• Strong organizational skills

• Ability to multi-task

• Possesses a desire to advance and grow career

Experience Level:

Intermediate Level

About Aerotek:

We know that a company's success starts with its employees. We also know that an individual's success starts with the right career opportunity. As a Best of Staffing® Client and Talent leader, Aerotek's people-focused approach yields competitive advantage for our clients and rewarding careers for our contract employees. Since 1983, Aerotek has grown to become a leader in recruiting and staffing services. With more than 250 non-franchised offices, Aerotek's 8,000 internal employees serve more than 300,000 contract employees and 18,000 clients every year. Aerotek is an Allegis Group company, the global leader in talent solutions. Learn more at Aerotek.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.